Latest research finds millions of SASSA social grant recipients are tripling their income by engaging in these types of informal work …
grant recipients over the years. Here’s what it found, and here are tips on how you might do the same in 2024 …SASSA social grant recipients are using their government money to fund informal work for themselves. Image: Fileand you can understand why social justice organisations are calling for increases to help the poor.
However, according to The Conversation, 9-million SASSA social grant recipients already have a way of multiplying their grants through work in the informal economy. These are jobs with no written contract, nor are they registered for tax. These may include providing services like painting or plumbing, running a tavern, a betting parlor, or trading goods through a spaza shop.
The elderly are more suited to work in babysitting, home care, baking or cooking, knitting and sewing or any other type of self-employment. It’s the gig-economy for the townships and SASSA grants are the seed money. The highest probability of generating informal work comes from child-grant beneficiaries. As they are younger and more likely to engage in these sorts ‘survival-oriented business.’ Next are SRD grant recipients they still felt financially unstable.
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